IBM Chassis Management Module has addressed the following vulnerabilities in NTP.
Summary
IBM Chassis Management Module has addressed the following vulnerabilities in NTP.
Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2017-6464
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malformed mode configuration directive to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123610> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-6463
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending an invalid setting, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using the :config directive to cause the daemon to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123612> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-6460
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123618> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-6458
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by multiple buffer overflows in the ctl_put() functions. By sending an overly long string argument, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overflow a buffer and cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123616> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9042
Description: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the origin timestamp check functionality. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123619> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
Product | Version |
---|---|
IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) | 2PET |
Remediation/Fixes:
Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
<http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/>.
Product | Fix Version |
---|---|
IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) | |
(ibm_fw_cmm_2pet14k-2.5.10k_anyos_noarch) | 2PET14K-2.5.10k |
Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):
None
References:
Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
09 November 2017: Original Copy Published
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